Help: Installation questions

Hi @all,
i want to install the oracle developer suite 9i (complete).
I do not understand one step of the installation
process:
- Provide Outgoing Mail Server Information
I do not know what i have to do there.
Have i to install and configure the Oracle 9i AS
before installing developer suite?
Is this important when i want to work with Forms
and JDeveloper or Designer?
What is a possible entry, when i do not have a
mail server?
Or can i ignore this step?
Thank you for your help.
Greetings
Ingo from Germany

Provide Outgoing Mail Server Information<<You can optionally provide your Outgoing SMTP Mail Server. If you do not know this info pls ask your sysadmin.
Also you can add it manually even after the installation at
$OH\reports\conf\<server_name.conf>

This is **optional**. You can skip it. This will be used by Reports if you want to email your reports.
If you do not provide this info Reports cannot email reports. Otherwise there is no other impact.
Have i to install and configure the Oracle 9i AS before installing developer suite?<<<No.
Is this important when i want to work with Forms and JDeveloper or Designer? <<By "this" - You mean "Mail server info" ? - No
By "this" - You mean "Oracle AS" ? - No
Using developer suite you can build reports, forms etc. You can test it in Builder, Forms builder etc. There are also
application server containers provided for testing.
Once it is tested users can deploy it on iAS (which provides many other services like Security, Single signon etc).
But for building and testing Dev suite is enough.
Thanks
Ratheesh
[    All Docs     ]
http://otn.oracle.com/documentation/reports.html
[     Publishing reports to web - 10G ]
http://download.oracle.com/docs/html/B10314_01/toc.htm (html)
http://download.oracle.com/docs/pdf/B10314_01.pdf (pdf)
[   Building reports - 10G ]
http://download.oracle.com/docs/pdf/B10602_01.pdf (pdf)
http://download.oracle.com/docs/html/B10602_01/toc.htm (html)
[   Forms Reports Integration whitepaper 9i ]
http://otn.oracle.com/products/forms/pdf/frm9isrw9i.pdf
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Quote from: tommycat95 on 16-December-12, 12:17:35
Hi,
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Thanks
Sean

1: We are working on a method to use a local socket to communicate with an installed c# application on the users machine. The situation is very similar, however we store credentials encrypted and accessible to the installed binary. If those credentials do not exist the AIR app requests the user to input them and they are sent to the binary. These credentials are stored either per session, daily or forever per the user's preferences. We use this method to let AIR be the front end it was designed to be and leave all the heavy lifting OS / processor wise to the binary. Unsure if this would help but you can read a bit more on using local sockets here: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/AIR/1.5/devappshtml/WS5b3ccc516d4fbf351e63e3d118666ade46-7caf. html
2: The EULA is still required as the End User has to accept it. If there's a way around that, I'm not aware.
3: The installation directory can be changed by the user unless you are performing silent installs (available when you sign a redistribution agreement). I don't recommend relying on the installation directory never changing.
Try using nativePath to determine where your program location is: (javascript)
//application directory
var file = air.File.applicationDirectory.resolvePath("testfile.html");
air.trace(file.nativePath);
//application storage directory
var file = air.File.applicationStorageDirectory.resolvePath("testfile.html");
air.trace(file.nativePath);
4: I've faced the problem where the AIR runtime is not available, but we always fall back on the badge there. For what it's worth it's pretty handy at detecting requirements and getting them to the user.
hope that helps

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